Economic stress: Job cuts hitting state employees hard - Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah's colleges and universities have suffered the deepest reductions, shaving 919 faculty and staff positions since last year -- 223 of them involuntary cuts. The University of Utah lost 365 jobs (most of them nonteaching positions); Utah State, 179; and Salt Lake Community College, 101. "You can't eliminate 900-some positions without it really affecting the overall quality of the collegiate experience," says Commissioner of Higher Education William Sederburg. "We do know it is a very negative consequence on our college campuses and it really translates into fewer opportunities for students."